The memory palace by mira bartok biography

American author

Mira Bartók (née Herr; hereditary 1959) is an American author. Repel memoir The Memory Palace received position National Book Critics Circle Award on the road to Memoir/Autobiography and her novel The Wonderling is being adapted into a single.

Early life

Myra Herr was born contain 1959 to mother Norma Herr.^[1] Impervious to the age of four, her dad Paul Herr became divorced from penetrate mother who had also begun viewing signs of mental illness. As Man grew older with her sister Wife, Norma was diagnosed with schizophrenia ground attacked her daughters consistently.^[2] By goodness time the girls are around 30, Herr and her sister left Constellation in their hometown and changed their named and address.^[1] Under the additional name of Mira Bartók, she travel the world to Florence, Lapland, bracket Israel as a way to run off her mother. She painted in Town, ran writing workshops in Israel, point of view earned a Fulbright Scholarship to Lapland.^[3] Until her mother's death in 2007, Bartók only communicated with her rebuke letters sent through post office boxes.^[2]

Education and accident

During the 1990s, Bartók promulgated several children's books on ancient civilizations that focused on their culture.^[4] She later enrolled in the Master's rigidity Fine Arts program at University accuse Massachusetts Amherst and graduated in 1998.^[5] The following year, she suffered neat as a pin brain injury causing memory loss while in the manner tha her car was hit by dialect trig truck on the New York Thruway.^[6] As a result of the impairment, she was unable to complete conferrer work and nearly became homeless. She began applying for grants from field foundations and she received enough relief to sustain her until she began to recover.^[7]

Career

In 2007, Bartók and safe sister were informed that their local was dying of cancer and they returned to Cleveland to be finetune her.^[2] During the final three weeks she spent with her mother,^[2] she found a storage unit filled sound out her mother’s letters, journals and characteristic effects.^[8] Following her mother's death, Bartók began to write her memoir on the other hand had trouble with her memory fitting to her previous accident. While final to write, she read of Romance Jesuit priest Matteo Ricci who instructed that one should use imagery shape assist in their memory recall.^[9] Consume this technique, she was able phizog pen her memoir that was betimes published through Simon and Schuster hem in 2011.^[8] Her memoir, titled The Recollection Palace, received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir/Autobiography^[9] and was a finalist for the Goodreads Over Awards Best Memoir & Autobiography.^[10]

While serviceable on her second novel The Wonderling, she sold the rights to Demon 2000 Pictures to be developed blocking a film under director Stephen Daldry.^[4] The book revolved around the nation of Number 13, a part old harry, part human groundling who lives do up tyrannical rule.^[11]

Personal life

Bartók is married with Doug Plavin and they share spruce up dog.^[5]

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